Most Intriguing Teams and Players for 2024-25 Season

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Zach Lowe is joined by Kevin Pelton to discuss the Olympics and all of the late offseason news from around the league, then they discuss the teams they have the most questions for after this summer, and which players they think are the most intriguing heading into the 2024-2025 NBA season. All that and more! 3:45- Recapping Team USA's nerve racking quest for Gold 11:15- Are the Suns in a better position to compete heading into next year? 20:00- How concerning is the Jamal Murray situation in Denver? 22:45- Can the Bucks return to championship contention? 26:00- Can the new look 76ers piece together a contending roster? 32:35- Is Wemby ready to take the Spurs into the next stratosphere? 45:00- Are the Memphis Grizzlies ready to reclaim the West throne? 48:00- Most intriguing 49:30- Can Jaren Jackson Jr. return to DPOY level? 52:00- What will the Jazz do with Walker Kessler? 55:05- Has Tyler Herro reached his ceiling? 1:01:30- Trey Murphy III's continued ascension. 1:05:00- Can Shaedon Sharpe carve a role in Portland? 1:12:15- Keon Ellis' defensive impact 1:13:30 Dyson Daniels fit on the Hawks 1:17:45- Mavericks repeat as Western Conference champs? 1:20:15- What will the Rockets do with their young stars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the low post.
0:04.0	Welcome to the low post podcast. It's after Labor Day.
0:08.0	We are rapidly careening.
0:10.0	Correining, I say, toward an NBA season that feels a little bit wide open
0:15.9	considering that a 64 win team just won the NBA championship and brought everybody
0:21.2	back that's the Boston Celtics of course.
0:23.5	Jaylyn Brown and Jason Tatum should be coming back with chips on their shoulder.
0:27.5	Jaylyn Brown got snubbed by the Team USA and the Olympics.
0:31.0	Jason Tatum got benched.
0:32.6	Rudy Goh Bear got benched.
0:35.0	Why is it that somehow Kevin Belton,
0:37.3	despite the fact that they have an Ascendant superstar
0:39.8	in Anthony Edwards and beat the Denver Nuggets on the road in game seven of the
0:44.5	second round of the playoffs last year as big a challenge as there is. I just
0:47.9	can't quite get all the way there. I got trust issues with the Minnesota.
0:52.0	Timboros, Boston also has poor Zingis out
0:54.2	to start the season and no one famously
0:56.0	has repeated since the Kevin Durian Warriors in 2018.
0:59.1	That said, on the other end of the bracket,
1:01.4	I would bet big, big, big money if betting were something I would
1:04.6	ever do I recommend on Oklahoma City being the number one seat in the Western
1:08.6	Conference and yet when you talk about championships they are still so young and I don't know I don't I don't know if I'm ready for that
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